The fishmonger's hands move like a dance—swift, precise, ancestral. She fillets mackerel at a pace that seems impossible, silvered scales catching early light that filters through the market's corrugated roof. Around her, the cacophony of a thousand negotiations, the sharp scent of the sea mingling with cilantro and lime.

I'm standing in Mercado de Mariscos on the Pacific coast of Panama, a place that doesn't appear in glossy travel magazines but thrums with a vitality no resort can replicate. It's 6 a.m., and the fishermen have just returned, their boats rocking gently against weathered docks.

"¿Primera vez?" the woman asks without looking up. First time?

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